The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.Smile, R. Elton
Science
The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.
Smile, R. Elton
Science fiction, American
This led to the immediate inauguration of the Manatitlan system of
education. The transformation of the temples of the foræ, for the
reception of the children, inspired a feeling of instinctive awe from
the audacity of the undertaking, which was heightened by the humorous
devisements of auramentation practiced by the volantaphs engaged in
directing the education of the brothers and sisters in the art of
falconry. With the completion of the temples for the reception of the
children, the families of the prætor’s nearest relatives and adherents
supplied the schools with teachers and censors, and in a few years all
the citizens became warm supporters of the new system, fully impressed
with its manifold benefactions from an increase in affectionate
confidence. The children of Indegatus soon became proficients in the
successful training of falcons, and were then able to place a large
fleet of birds at the disposal of their benefactors. Since the time of
Indegatus, the daughters of the prætors have assumed the charge of the
mews as an hereditary heirloom.
* * * * *
At this stage of the historical relation M. Hollydorf, with the
suggestive aid of the Dosch, completed his summary of the events that
had transpired from the commencement of their river explorations to
date, which was addressed to the secretary of the R. H. B. Society.
Afterwards, Mr. Welson, with the same aid, directed letters of inquiry
to his “friend” M. Baudois, a French scientific gentleman, resident
correspondent of the R. H. B. A. of Paris, at Montevideo, who employed
his time in fishing, for the classification of the inhabitants of the La
Plata estuary, with the intention of comparing them with the fishes of
the Mediterranean Sea, to determine the migratory tendencies effected by
variations in the current monsoon, to and from the Strait of Gibraltar.
He had also traced the glacial indications of the neighborhood, in
search of transition tracks of rocks in the diluvial currents of the
prehistoric periods of the earth’s immersion, before its surface
extension regulated with its axis movements, the winds, and tides. He
wrote a second letter, of like import, to Don Pedro Garcia of Buenos
Ayres, an antiquarian of note, expressing a desire for his coöperation
with M. Baudois for elucidating the probable origin of the Kyronese; and
in the collection of all available collateral evidence for
substantiating the approximate period of the Heracleans’ advent upon the
Mauna Luna shore (American); urging him to separate and classify his
proofs so that there might be no Mandevillian interweaving of facts with
traditions and conjecture, as they were intended for Mr. Dow’s use in
his elaboration of Heraclean history. With the desire expressed for
their aid in behalf of Mr. Dow’s undertaking, he did not forget to
advise them of the essential advantages he had derived from the
discovery of the representative remnants of humanity descended from
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